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Last year, the City of Boston welcomed a total of 20,645 babies.
What were the most popular names among these babies? Olivia and Liam.
Here are Boston’s top 20 girl names and top 20 boy names of 2023:
Girl names
Olivia
Emma
Sophia
Charlotte
Sofia
Isabella
Grace
Chloe
Amelia
Maya
Luna
Gianna
Mia
Nora
Ava
Natalie
Ella
Emilia
Maeve
Eleanor
Boy names
Liam
Noah
Henry
Leo
Theodore
Jack
Julian
James
Thomas
Benjamin
William
Luca
John
Ethan
Logan
Aiden
Charles
Samuel
Joseph
Oliver
Thomas caught my eye — it’s a top-10 boy name in Boston, but (in 2022) it only managed to rank 22nd state-wide and 45th country-wide.
Massachusetts’ top baby names of 2023 won’t be revealed until May, when the new SSA data comes out, but the state’s #1 names in 2022 were Olivia and Noah. (Noah won by a wide margin, in fact. It was given to 142 more baby boys than second-place Liam.)
Yesterday we came up with some girl names that were either particularly Canadian or particularly American. So today let’s do the same thing for boy names.
Again, here are the two different methods:
First, we’ll look at the most popular names that appeared in only one set of data (either Canada or the U.S.) in 2022.
Second, we’ll look at the names that appeared in both sets of data, focusing on how proportionally popular each name was in each place. For the boy names below, I calculated the proportions by dividing each name’s U.S. usage by the total number of boys born in the U.S. last year (1,863,582) and each name’s Canadian usage by the total number of boys born Canada last year (180,763).
Top Canada-only boy names
The 2022 Canadian data included 261 boy names that were not in the U.S. data. Below are the 10 most popular Canada-only boy names.
Number of boys (Can.)
Rank (Can.)
1. Edouard
492
49th
2. Arnaud
352
85th
3. Florent
73
394th
4. Laurier
60
460th
5. Loik
57
485th
6. Ludovick
45
588th
7. Renaud
42
627th
8. Gregoire
30
831st
9. Charles-Edouard
27 (tie)
902nd (tie)
10. Gurniwaz
27 (tie)
902nd (tie)
Nine out of ten are French names used primarily in Quebec:
Edouard: 482 of 492 born in Quebec
Arnaud: 349 of 352
Florent: 71 of 73
Laurier: 60 of 60 (all)
Loik: 47 of 57
Ludovick: 45 of 45 (all)
Renaud: 40 of 42
Gregoire: 30 of 30 (all)
Charles-Edouard: 25 of 27
The Sikh name Gurniwaz, however, was not used in Quebec at all.
Boy names particularly popular in Canada
Now let’s look at the more than 2,950 boy names that appeared in both sets of data. Of the boy names used more frequently in Canada than in the U.S., the 10 below had the largest pro-Canada differentials. (I added the rankings for both countries as well.)
Differential (Pro-Can.)
Rank (Can.)
Rank (U.S.)
1. Leo
0.3578%
4th
22nd
2. Adam
0.3460%
16th
97th
3. Felix
0.3408%
23rd
192nd
4. Theo
0.3217%
17th
99th
5. Thomas
0.3197%
8th
45th
6. Arthur
0.3030%
22nd
140th
7. Nathan
0.2830%
13th
57th
8. Muhammad
0.2675%
35th
297th
9. Louis
0.2576%
34th
246th
10. Emile
0.2473%
60th
2,076th
Top U.S.-only boy names
The 2022 U.S. data included 11,297 boy names that were not in the Canadian data. Below are the 10 most popular U.S.-only boy names.
Many of these are used primarily by Spanish speakers.
Boy names particularly popular in the U.S.
Now, back to the names that both countries had in common. Of the boy names used more frequently in the U.S. than in Canada, the 10 below had the largest pro-U.S. differentials.
The vast country of Canada is located in North America and shares the world’s longest international land border with its neighbor to the south, the United States.
Last year, Canada (excluding Yukon) welcomed 351,679 babies — 48.6% of which were girls, 51.4% of which were boys.
What were the most popular names among these babies? Olivia and Noah.
Here are Canada’s top 50 girl names and top 50 boy names of 2022:
Girl Names
Olivia, 1,804 baby girls
Emma, 1,550
Charlotte, 1,475
Amelia, 1,193
Sophia, 1,079
Chloe, 1,057
Mia, 946
Ava, 923
Lily, 861
Mila, 847
Alice, 786
Isla, 769
Sofia, 763
Evelyn, 751
Abigail, 715
Sophie, 712
Nora, 708
Charlie, 700
Ellie, 680
Zoe, 661
Maya, 658
Isabella, 656
Ella, 634
Clara, 618
Elizabeth, 617
Aria, 610
Violet, 599
Rose, 593
Eva, 578
Hannah, 577
Emily, 575 (tie)
Luna, 575 (tie)
Ivy, 562
Harper, 560
Florence, 557
Scarlett, 519
Victoria, 514
Hazel, 513
Julia, 492
Avery, 490
Madison, 488
Zoey, 474
Eleanor, 467
Grace, 448 (tie)
Livia, 448 (tie)
Emilia, 447
Layla, 437
Aurora, 435
Lea, 434
Willow, 430
Boy Names
Noah, 2,198 baby boys
Liam, 1,902
William, 1,516
Leo, 1,447
Theodore, 1,423
Oliver, 1,273
Benjamin, 1,217
Thomas, 1,205
Lucas, 1,187
Jack, 1,186
James, 1,141
Jacob, 1,105
Nathan, 1,047
Logan, 1,044
Ethan, 1,040
Adam, 977
Theo, 932
Jackson, 907
Owen, 891
Henry, 870
Levi, 831
Arthur, 807
Felix, 806
Gabriel, 777
Samuel, 753
Charles, 749
Luca, 719
Hudson, 663
Nolan, 651
Alexander, 647
Daniel, 644
Mason, 622
Caleb, 613
Louis, 604
Jayden, 595 (tie)
Muhammad, 595 (tie)
Elijah, 593
Aiden, 584
Maverick, 581
Isaac, 579
Ryan, 538
Wyatt, 521
Carter, 520
Luke, 516
Elliot, 499 (tie)
Lincoln, 499 (tie)
Eli, 496
Grayson, 495
Edouard, 492
Mateo, 489
The names in Canada’s top 100 that rose the fastest from 2021 to 2022 were:
Wren, Blake, Eloise, Freya, Athena, and Gabriella (girl names)
Leon, Ali, Cooper, Rowan, Charlie, Luke, and Sebastian (boy names)
And here’s a selection of names from the other end of the spectrum — names that were given to just 5 babies each in Canada last year:
British diplomat Charles Hardinge (who served as Viceroy of India from 1910 to 1916) and his wife Winifred had a total of three children:
Edward, b. 1892
Alexander, b. 1894
Diamond, b. 1900
Their oldest was named after Edward, the Prince of Wales (who, in 1901, became King Edward VII).
Their middle child was named after Alexandra, the Princess of Wales (later Queen Alexandra).
And their youngest? She wasn’t named after a royal person, but after a royal person’s horse: Diamond Jubilee, who was owned by the Prince of Wales and won the Epsom Derby about a week before she was born. (Diamond Jubilee was foaled in 1897 — the year of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.)
Image: Diamond Jubilee from The New Book of the Horse (1911) by Charles Richardson
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